Nemesis, daughter of Nyx and Erebus according to Hesiod, daughter of Oceanus according to Pausanias. Mother of Helen of Troy and Dioscuri brothers.

She had two names also, Rhamnusia, because of a statue and a temple of her in Rhamnouda, (a village in northern Attica opposite Evia) and Adrasteia, which means "the one from which no one can escape". In the myth she is presented as a merciless and remorseless deity. Her role was to keep human affairs in balance. She punished people's arrogance.

Here she holds a fan, known as "tessen" used by  the samurai as a weapon, and a wakizashi sword. On the kimono were printed fish with gold gilding and linocut and on the fan were drawed geese. Fishes and geese have to do with the transformations of the goddess. On her hair the colchicus flower, a type of crocus that blooms in Autumn, known for the colchicine poison that produces.

Paper synthesis with Japanese, Thai and Nepalese papers painted with ink, watercolor, gold leafs, linocut.

Geisha photographed by Raimund von Stillfried (Austrian military officer and photographer) circa 1870.